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I don't see anything really worse about it.

That's just what people like to say without any quantifiable metrics (usually just with some random data points about this or that bug, but not quantifiably compared to previous releases).

Millions of people use it everyday for professional work, including in film and music studios, where stability and timely performance are much more paramount than for some corporate cubicle running Excel.

I've not seen anything actually actively deteriorate. The Finder is much better, Spotlight is much more robust than before, apps run fine, etc.

There have been bad moves, like the change to their custom DNS responder thing which was not ready for production. Or some glitches here and there. But I've seen such things all the way down to 10.1 were I started. There will always be bugs when you add new features (and even when you don't add anything, as technologies around your OS also change).

Plus the upcoming release is a "Snow Leopard" like bugfix affair too, which will help things.




> Millions of people use it everyday for professional work, including in film and music studios, where stability and timely performance are much more paramount than for some corporate cubicle running Excel.

This can be said about Windows


So? Windows is pretty solid too, after XP, and especially post Vista.

The main issue with Windows, if there is one nowadays, is some UI cohenrece, not bugs and stability.


So, it is an irrelevant argument.


"Plus the upcoming release is a "Snow Leopard" like bugfix affair too, which will help things."

It is ? You are referring to Yosemite ? Genuinely curious...


El Capitain is the next release.


No, to El Capitan. It's a bugfix release mostly, with few new features and changes introduced.


So you mean you have some 'quantifiable metrics' when you say OS X is a 'mighty fine' OS?




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